No doubt, Hank Aaron is recognized as one of the all-time greats. Yet, in some ways, he is still underrated. Here is a man who was hitting double-digit homers ten years before I was born. He still managed to have a superstar year as I was entering junior high school. …
Great American Ballpark Cincinnati, OH April 24, 2015 The Cubs come to Cincinnati having moved into first place after the Dodgers loss last night. Tonight Travis Wood (1-1) faces Anthony DeScalfani (1-2), who beat the Cubs earlier this year. The Cubs get things started quickly as leadoff hitter Dexter Fowler…
The Transcontinental Baseball League is nearing their 2017 draft and by tradition, there is no lack of analysis, water-cooler talk and outright gossip about what teams will take who and when. The managers of the TBL take pride in their league and they go all out in writing up pre-draft…
Chuck Lucas has been seeing the leaderboards I’ve been posting for my 1966 National League replay using the APBA Basic Game and he asked about how I keep my stats. I thought the best way to show him (and everyone else) is to make a video tour of my stats…
PNC PARK Pittsburgh, PA April 23, 2015 The Cubs face the Pirates in the final game of their four game set. Today’s matchup heavily favors the Pirates as Garrett Cole faces Kyle Hendricks. The Pirates have had a good season in the early going, and with a win will salvage…
When I first started playing the APBA Master Game (baseball), I quickly found I was wearing out the board that contained the various fielding ranges. It was shopworn after three months and steadily went downhill after that. In addition, I found I was practically going blind trying to find where…
Hi everyone, The Prairieland 2 APBA Baseball Tournament which will take place in Champaign, Illinois on April 1st is less than three months away. APBA fans are beginning to sign up but there is plenty of room. This year’s tourney will feature a team and fantasy deadball player “draft” which…
Neil Leininger emailed me to let me know that he and Brian Hamilton are gearing to bring up a new APBA baseball league using the Basic Game. The league is called the Roy Hobbs Baseball Association and currently there’s room for managers!! If you take a look at the proposed…
I’ve been having some unusual games in my 1966 NL replay. So much so that I even researched to see if it was a full moon during the time I’m replaying (no, it was a new moon at this time). some of the fun stuff happening… May 19th St. Louis…
by Scott Fennessy For those of you who don’t do replays of the dead ball era, (and the return to running in the 80’s) then you really in my opinion missed a truly interesting period of baseball. Those days there were power hitters, although not by today’s standards, but there…